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The small town of Elkader, Iowa is named after a Muslim Algerian revolutionary.

Nov. 23, 2011

We'll travel to Elkader, Iowa, a town that's grappled with an identity crisis since September 11, 2001. The reason? Elkader is the only town in the entire United States that's named after an Arab Muslim. After 9/11, some locals sought to change the city's name and forgo this association. We'll meet an openly gay couple who went the opposite route, opening an Algerian-American restaurant on Elkader's Main Street. Also, in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, we devote this week's Global Notes to some wild music from Turkey.

We head to Iowa, to a town of 1,500 surrounded by corn and soybean farms.Though it's more than one thousand miles from New York City, this town was uniquely impacted by the attacks of September 11, 2011.

This edition of Global Notes serves up the kind of Turkey that even vegetarians can enjoy.As Americans prepare to feast on foul, Jerome and Radio M host Tony Sarabia spin some of their favorite music from Turkey, including the 1970s psychedelics of Erkin Koray and Selda, modern pop